Rope Tensioners and Tent Slips

[@darthkurai]

Life saver! I have to make ropes for a new tent 2 days before an event, and this is EXACTLY all the info I needed. A million thanks!

[@sethgravley6995]

Thanks man this was great, I go to my first reenactment this weekend and I'm working on these tent slips incredibly more frustrating than I originally thought

[@wallstreettrader1]

Very instructional video. I'll be using this method for securing guy wires for an amateur radio antenna mast for Field Day.

[@rmcdaniel423]

If you don't have a lathe, and are OK with simple DIY "good enough", then a couple rasps and files work pretty good too. Heck, you could even just whittle some out with a pocket knife and sections of saplings or branches, while sitting around a few campfires.

[@FrontierLegacy]

I'm not doing civil war but I am trying to figure out this kind of stuff for a post war civilian who went west. I just want to start camping and hiking in that manor. The stuff you have been doing is a big help.

[@CompanyD2ndUSSS]

That's great. Keep in touch if you have any questions along the way.

[@smalltownmachineshop6860]

Great video, it’s nice to see so much detail and passion given to such a small part of the whole experience

[@Guerrillakalle]

Little question from me does the sharpshooters use green canteen covers our reenactment shop sell these but im not sure. greetings from Germany!

[@CompanyD2ndUSSS]

Guerrillakalle please for my sanity please stay away from the green covers. There is no evidence what so ever of green covers. Most were grey or tan jean wool covers.

[@Guerrillakalle]

Thank you very much im planning to do an sharpshooter impression for myself but in Germany information and shops are very rare. your channel is an extreme help for me keep up the great work .

[@NoelGutierrezA]

Could it be made of aluminium?

[@CompanyD2ndUSSS]

For modern use absolutely. For civil war reenacting it would definitely not be period correct.

[@NoelGutierrezA]

@@CompanyD2ndUSSS Great!!

[@Osgkar]

do you have a printable template for the dog bone shape please?

[@annamalin123]

Where can I get a high quality shelter tent half.

[@ethanbugs17]

Besides the ones 1st Sgt. Koepp makes the others can be bought from Wambaugh, White & Co. through this link: wwandcompany.com/shelter-halves/

[@grayeaglej]

About the Dowel version, why not take a piece of stick/branch, drill holes in that, maybe take the bark off? Surely something like that would have been fairly common, especially as the machine made "dogbone" and brass tent slips were broken and lost. O.o

[@tombouie]

Thks just made wooden ones & will try'm out tomorrow. If it works, next is metal ones.

[@hamm6033]

I have gotten damaged 5/4 boards from the local box store kinda cheap. The more damage the cheaper it was.

[@CompanyD2ndUSSS]

Another great tip! Thanks for sharing.

[@hansfranson6570]

Business can take the most absurd turns. Use firewood with three holes in it for each tent corner. Then you can take $ 50 per firewood🤣🤣🤣

[@keithsr.]

Block of wood and 2 holes. Not rocket science lol. No lathe needed.